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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Political Science, International Relations"”.
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Drug policy-making in Sri Lanka 1984-2008: people, politics and power
… concepts and research from a variety of social science disciplines such as sociology, political science, international relations, public administration and social policy and included an historical approach to understanding policy development. The study provides an informed narrative describing …
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Regionalism in South East Asia: a factor analysis approach
… in terms of current theories in the field of Political Science/International Relations. Data was used from a variety of secondary sources including UNDEX United Nations documents, International Trade Directory and the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators. The variables were then …
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Anti -Imperialism During the Philippine -American War: Protesting 'Criminal Aggression' and 'Benevolent Assimilation
… I explain the anti-imperialist movement's relationship to the formation of what I call a ""racial state of exception,"" a historically adaptable pattern of legal inclusions and exclusions of violence that continues to inform U.S. policies. The analysis draws empirically on archival …
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The Geography of Insurgency: An Urban Network Insurgency Model of the Viet Nam War
… contest the ruling authority for power within a politically defined territory. Using data collected by the U.S. Department of Defense during the war, this research proposes and tests a theoretical framework which considers an insurgency as a conflict over nodes within the urban network and …
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The Behavioral Consequences of Territorial Competition
"This dissertation project asks the fundamental question ""are there behavioral consequences of territorial threat?"" Extant theory suggests that state behavioral responses to threat vary according to stakes. In particular, it seems that threat to territory is different than other sources of …
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Les ententes canado-americains en matière de télécommunications
Abstract not available.
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Target types and the efficacy of economic sanctions
… is predicated on the role that target country political attributes play in fashioning a response to the imposition of economic sanctions. Accordingly, these attributes are instrumental in creating the countermeasures that target countries employ in resisting sanction effects. Therefore, the …
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Evolving Threat Narratives: The Case of China's Transition from Foe to Friend during Rapprochement
This research endeavor attempts to better understand the nature of American threat narratives, how narratives evolve, what drives the change, and finally, what it all means for perceptions of threat to the US. The purpose of this study is to understand the implications of bias on evolving threat …
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The Politics of Choice and Institutional Development in Global Environmental Regimes
What factors account for variation in institutional development in the direction of greater or lesser regime complexity? To answer this question, this dissertation develops a distributive historical theory that connects the micro-foundations of state choice to the macro-processes of institutional …
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How the City State Fares Under State Capitalism in the PRC: Local and State-Wide Reform
How do national political and economic policies impact the ability of cities to accomplish urban growth and economic goals? This study examines the state policies Shanghai operates under to assess the potential for software reform in China. Specifically, this study examines software by drawing on …
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Making the case for space: employing political communication to set domestic and international policy
… itself, is vast and largely unexplored. As political scientists, we have left this policy area mainly to those scholars, agencies, and companies working within the industry. While we occasionally consider it as part of other works on domestic and international science and technology policies …
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International trade and interstate conflict: The influence of domestic political institutions
Under what conditions does international trade have pacifying or exacerbating effects on militarized interstate conflict? Previous scholars have asserted that rational, aggregate welfare-maximizing leaders will promote free trade and refrain from actions, such as militarized interstate conflict, …
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When Laws and Representation Are Not Enough: Enduring Impunity and Post-Conflict Sexual Violence in Liberia and Sierra Leone
… reflect (or translate into) changed gender relations. The passing of laws and the implementation of these laws, such as those in Sierra Leone, will affect women’s lives more positively.
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China’s soft power investment in African nations
… reports describe China’s increasing economic and political influence as “China threat” that can undermine U.S. influence and affect the existing international hegemonic order, public opinion poll data shows that Africans tend to have more favorable views of China. Previous literature suggests that …
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Mass Media and the Domestic Politics of Economic Globalization
… misunderstood role in the variety of national political responses to economic globalization around the world since the 1960s. More specifically, quantitative as well as qualitative methods across three article-length studies demonstrate how mass media have played a variety of anti-democratic …
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The Politics of Development Aid: Understanding the Lending Practices of the World Bank Group
… influence. Utilizing a multi-donor model of political influence, the study finds evidence that the Bank’s top donors, countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan disproportionately influence the Bank to lend in ways that support their foreign policy interests. Countries …
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